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| 1876 | 1 |
| 1885 | 1 |
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- The Indian Wife, the White Widow, and the Skagit Ranch
A Skagit County probate fight asked whether the children of John Wilbur’s Indigenous wife could inherit his ranch—or whether his later white marriage erased them.
- A School Superintendent's Fall from Grace
J. C. Phelps of Anacortes is bound over to superior court on charges that he embezzled money from a wharf company and Western Union.
- The Constitutional Battle Over Fruit Inspection
A Superior Court judge rules that Skagit County fruit inspectors cannot be appointed, effectively stalling the state’s ability to regulate the local orchard industry.
- Trapped by the Skagit River's Winter Fury
An eyewitness account from January 1885 describes the deadly isolation of the Skagit Valley as the river choked with ice, cutting off pioneer settlers from the outside world.
- Mount Vernon's Dikes Held—Barely—as the Skagit Rose
The Skagit River broke a dike near Fir, covered bottomlands, cut trains and mail, and left Mount Vernon watching its new levee seep.
- The Log Jam That Held Back a Valley: Skagit Settlers Propose a DIY River Clearance
With a massive log jam blocking navigation on the Skagit River, a settler proposes that landowners take matters into their own hands rather than wait for Congress.